A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Jal in New Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.6839 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:58:07 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.338 West, latitude 31.966 North, depth = 4.6839 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 11:58:07 / August 31, 2025 @ 11:58 am. Id of earthquake: tx2025rddnxj. Event ids that are associated: tx2025rddnxj.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos, Monahans, Kermit. Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km SW of Jal, New Mexico.
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